Large Porcelain Cigar Ashtray Graphic Art by Paul Giovanopoulos

La Ciambella large porcelain cigar ashtray by Paul Giovanopoulos for Ritzenhoff

The La Ciambella line of porcelain cigar-sized ashtrays feature artwork by artists from all over the world.  They are made of porcelain glazed in white.  The artist's name is printed discreetly on each ashtray.

Quality porcelain with two flat and wide cigar rests  Covered base protects the ashtray and your furniture 6.5" square and 1.5" tall Weighs 1 lb Packaged in a gift box

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	Paul Giovanopoulos
			Born 1939 in Kastoria/Greece. Works as Artist in New York, USA.   “The luxury of having many solutions to a single problem.” This is the obvious motif in the art of Paul Giovanopoulos: four cow silhouettes, stamped next to each other and individualized with different patterns adorn his milk glass. His design toys with the idea of a serial picture, quotes the ornament on the ornament along with Giovanopoulos’ other works – the cow motif was already referred to in his 1986 “Now Cow” series in various interpretations, which in turn could be regarded as a homage to Andy Warhol’s half-profile of a cow; the leaders of an endless herd of cattle in the history of art. Giovanopoulos does not only multiply cows, he also multiplies all kinds of other objects, such as paint tubes, ice-cream wafers or hamburgers: not as much as the “what” but the “how” is what draws his attention. Using an everyday object, Giovanopoulos declines many different methods of depiction on a canvas – sometimes cubist, sometimes impressionistic, à la Roy Lichtenstein or Keith Haring, based freely on Dalí, Botero or Jasper Johns. The painter Giovanopoulos thus becomes the curator of his own art collection and opens a new museum with each new canvas – dedicated, for example, to baseball in 45 pictures. In spite of the endless rows of motifs, Giovanopoulos never gets bored. On the contrary: the spontaneity and the fun of creating art in this way, he says writing of his milk design, are the best tribute to the freshness of milk. The main thing is that the use-by date is not exceeded.